ArticleAgriculture, ecosystems & environment2022
Deep soil nitrogen storage slows nitrate leaching through the vadose zone.
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- The long tail of nitrate pollution in groundwater challenges governance of global water quality.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A Lecithin Liposome Stimulates Soil Microbial Respiration and Nitrate Immobilization.ACS agricultural science & technology · 2025Article
- The Reorganization of Rice Rhizosphere Microbial Communities Driven by Nitrogen Utilization Efficiency and the Regulatory Mechanism of Soil Nitrogen Cycling.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Deep soil contributions to global nitrogen budgets.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Global assessment of the fate of nitrogen deposition in forest ecosystems: Insights fromOpen life sciences · 2025Article
- Vadose zone flushing of fertilizer tracked by isotopes of water and nitrate.Vadose zone journal : VZJ · 2024Article
- Exploring the Potential of Heterosis to Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Popcorn Plants.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Deep soil nitrogen storage slows nitrate leaching through the vadose zone.Agriculture, ecosystems & environment · 2022Article
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Abstract
Nitrogen (N) fertilizer applications are important for agricultural yield, yet not all the applied N is taken up by crops, leading to surplus N storage in soil or leaching to groundwater and surface water. Leaching loss of fertilizer N represents a cost for farmers and has consequences for human health and the environment, especially in the southern Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA, where groundwater nitrate contamination is prevalent. While improved nutrient management and conservation practices have been implemented to minimize leaching, nitrate levels in groundwater continue to increase in many long-term monitoring wells. To elucidate controls on leaching rates and N dynamics in agricultural soils across soil depths, and in response to seasonal and annual variation in management (e.g., fertilizer input amount and summer irrigation), we intensively monitored the transport of water and nitrate every two weeks for four years through the vadose zone at three depths (0.8, 1.5, and 3.0 m) in a sweet corn (maize) field. Though nitrate leaching was highly variable among lysimeters at the same depth and across years, a strong pattern emerged: annual nitrate leaching significantly decreased with depth across the study, averaging ~104 kg N ha
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